Essays on Bumgarner

Management

This paper is devoted to the emergency management and developing a particular Emergency Response Plan. I, as an Emergency Manager, have been tasked to develop the suitable plan. The key elements and priorities of the above mentioned plan are presented below.

The Main Parts of the Emergency Response Plan

Emergency Response is a set of interrelated actions and activities of management agencies and the forces that determine the order of counteracting accidents, catastrophes, natural disasters and their consequences (Bumgarner). There are several steps to develop the Emergency Response Plan, which I as an Emergency Manager use. In order to effectively develop the Emergency Response Plan it needs ...

Communication Theory

Nowadays, the audience actively participates in the media message processing and influences the content that is channeled. Cognitive capacities of humans allow them to perceive and analyze the information presented in media and position it with the help of previous knowledge, scripts, expectations and attitudes. Facebook is one of the most popular social network sites that channels huge amount of information that is processed by the wide range of audience every minute. The two theories are applied to analyze Facebook as a form of media communication: a uses and gratification theory and schema theory. The way the audience approaches ...

The study of Bear Stearns abrupt fall and demise reveal the importance of credibility for a financial institution in a specific sense irrespective of its robustness. A business in general could fall if credibility and illiquidity become questionable. Bear Stearns is the first ever major investment bank to fail during the global financial crisis (Li and Mizrach, 2010). The 85 years old firm has survived a number of economic turmoil and recession, yet it fell when it was least expected to fall. A number of factors become apparent when studying the Bear Stearns demise, and these include the role of management, illiquidity, ...

A federal act of congress can be used to refer to the common laws formulated and enacted by the congress in the United States. The laws endorsed could either be common or public depending on how they will relate to the people and their effects. If a law is termed as public, then it applies to every individual in the country and no one is considered to be above the law in this case. On the other hand, private statues relate to explicit rules that apply to a particular group of people (Jensen, J. 2006). For instance, a group of certain professionals ...

There exist numerous misconceptions about the nature and functions of police in the United States. This is because of how the media and society at large portrays them. Many people have different perspectives on the fundamental functions of the police not only at the local stage, but also at the state and federal level. Nevertheless, the police at the local, state and federal level tend to have similar roles, and that is to ensure law and order and ensure citizens get the requisite protection. However, these functions get limited to the jurisdiction in which a police force gets assigned. Therefore, ...